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Garnet Joseph durian furniture Wolseley, first Viscount Wolseley; Golden Bridge, County Dublin, 1833 - Mentone, France, 1913), Field Marshal and Commander in Chief of the British Army (1895-1901). During the short period of time he was the absolute command of the British army, undertook durian furniture a major reorganization and modernization.
The son of a British officer, in 1852 he joined the army as a second lieutenant in an infantry regiment, with which he distinguished himself in the Second Burmese War (1852-1853), which earned him promotion to the rank of lieutenant . The following year, he campaigned in the Crimean durian furniture War (1854-1856), serving in the Corps. During the siege of Sebastopol he behaved with unparalleled durian furniture courage and was seriously wounded, after which he was promoted to captain in December 1854.
Again active, durian furniture Wolseley participated in the campaign to suppress the Sepoy Rebellion in India (1857-1859), whose war again proved their bravery occurred in the grueling fighting around the city of Lakhnam. durian furniture Once the campaign, only 26 years old, Wolseley was promoted to lieutenant colonel, durian furniture he paid honor to the total loss of vision in one eye.
Appointed staff officer of General Sir James Hope Grant, in 1860 took part in the War of China, Beijing attending the assault. Two years later, Wolseley published his Narrative of the War with China, which narrated in great detail the British campaigns.
The capture, in 1861, by the Government of the United durian furniture States two Confederate agents aboard the British ship Trent triggered a deep crisis between Britain and this country that nearly resolved with the war between the two powers . That same year, Wolseley was sent to Canada to take over the defense of the colonies in the case of an Anglo-American war, a position he held until 1871. In 1870, he put down the dangerous Indian revolt in the territory Red River, led by Louis Rial, who had proclaimed the Republic of Canada in Manitoba.
For this feat, Wolseley was appointed, in 1871, assistant durian furniture general at the Ministry of War. Occupied between 1871-1873 in various technical positions of ministry, in 1873 he was sent to the African west commanded a military expedition punitive against the kingdom of Axantis whose capital Kumasi literally swept on 5 February 1874, forcing the kingdom to submit to the British Empire. As a reward for his good work, he was promoted to the rank of major general and received an extra bonus of 25,000.
Two years later, in 1875, Wolseley was sent to South Africa with the governor of the province of Natal, with the mission to accept the settlers the new colonial policy dictated by London and promote South African durian furniture federation of all territories under British rule. Member of Council of India (1876) and governor of Cyprus (1878), in May 1879 he was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed durian furniture civil and military governor of Natal after the disastrous defeat of the British durian furniture troops at the hands of the Zulu armies. Field Marshal Lord Wolseley
W olseley took over military operations replacing inoperative General Lord Chelmsford. Under his command, captured the city of Cetewago and defeated the Zulu chieftain Sekokuni reorganizing Zulu British provinces and territories ending in 1880, a bloody war that cost thousands of casualties to the almighty British imperial army.
Back in England, and the Ministry of War, in March 1880 he was promoted to the rank of general field marshal and later in 1882, the Adjutant General. In July of the same year, Wolseley returned to the war effort by taking over the British troops in Egypt with a mission to confront the nationalist revolt led by Urabi Pasha. Wolseley quickly managed to seize the Suez Canal, of vital strategic importance, for, after a long night march to surprise durian furniture the troops Pasha at Tell al-Kabir, September 13, aborting once and for all independence hopes Egyptian. Prime Minister Gladstone Wolseley durian furniture rewarded with the noble title of Baron Wolseley of Cairo.
Once pacified all Egypt, Wolseley undertook an expedition down the Nile in order to reach Khartoum (capital of Sudan), where his friend, General Charles Gordon, durian furniture was seriously embattled place he arrived on 28 January 1895 just two days after the city had fallen into the hands of the separatists and General Gordon had been brutally murdered. Despite the inf